Kevin Smith is really good at announcing films he’s going to make and then not making them, and to be honest, I’m not really caught up on all the things he’s declared he’ll be shooting “soon.” However, the filmmaker is now back behind the camera for a new film.
Smith is now directing “Killroy Was Here,” a new anthology horror film. Bloody Disgusting have the details, and essentially, Smith turned his previously announced holiday themed picture “Comes The Krampus” aka “Anti-Claus” (see what I said about keeping track of this stuff) into a new project.
“We were gonna make this ‘Krampus’ movie and then somebody went and made a ‘Krampus‘ movie,” Smith explained in a recent Facebook Live conversation. “Ours was an anthology that played more like ‘Creepshow.’ Or, to appeal to the modern day kids, ‘Creepshow 2.’ Or, let’s say, ‘Black Mirror.’ So yeah, it’s kinda like that. It’s an anthology. So our ‘Krampus’ movie – which was called ‘Comes the Krampus’ and then later on, ‘Anti-Claus’ – it got shelved. So we decided to re-engineer that dopey script. We turned it into a different movie. We just changed the Krampus character – it’s almost the same script. Took the Christmas elements out of it. Instead, we’re calling it ‘Killroy Was Here.’ ”
The movie will feature creature design by Robert Kurtzman, and is inspired by graffiti that appeared during World War II, featuring a long nosed cartoon character.
“This is a monster movie in the sense of a classic morality tale,” Smith explained in a statement today. “No one wants to see you spill the blood of innocents, but when someone crosses the line and goes bad, you get to make them pay in horrible ways, and the audience cheers.”
“We wanted to make an anthology film in the vein of ‘Creepshow.’ Killroy is like the Golem, the Boogeyman and the Grim Reaper combined,” he said.
No word on a release date, or a cast, for “Killroy Was Here,” but Smith tends to crank ’em out, so we probably won’t be waiting too long for this to arrive.